On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Charles E. Gelm wrote:
> Thomas Olenio wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am going to re-install Slackware on my Zenith Z-NOTE,
> > 425Ln laptop PC, <snip>
> >
> > /dev/hda1 Primary Linux 115.95 (mb)
> >
> > When I run 'free' I am told;
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > mem 6576 6364 212 1616 4276 956
> > -/+ buffers: 1132 5444
> > swap 0 0 0<snip>
>
> It looks like you have 8 megabytes of RAM and 120 megabytes of hard disk
> space.
> You should create a swap file for some swap space.
>
> IMHO, you don't have enough RAM or hard disk space to run 'X'.
>
> HTH, Chuck
Hi Chuck et al,
I have to disagree here, 8mb is enough to run "X". I'm doing it right now
on a little 486/33. His major problem will be disk space. I have a small
SuSE (5.2) system running right now with two HDs a 120mb and 520mb. Linux
has all of the 120mb (20mb of swap) and 370mb of the other. Right now I'm
running at about 80% full on both. If possible I'd say add another bigger
HD as soon as you can. Of course, it's not wrong to add more ram if able.
And yes he must add swap.
About running X I'm able to run just about anything I want to. But for
example Netscape takes over 5 minutes to load and I only use it when I
must. WP8 works good formating letters etc, but I have to write in VI and
import the text. Gimp will run, but I can't really do anything with it. I
had KDE running (loved it too), but my HDs were filling up so I had to
delete it. :( Running fvwm2 is quite fine with only 8mb, it takes about 3
minutes to load. You should hear my HDs!
Overall it is possible to run X with 8mb. But you will need to have some
patients running it.
LATER!
J
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